June 6, 2012 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday in Vukovar that his country seeks to create good relations with every country, and that includes Serbia. “I hope that the positions of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will change. We have made significant progress in relations in the past two to …
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June 6, 2012 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said that the EU sees Azerbaijan as a strategic partner in the region. His statement was announced by the head of the EU office in Azerbaijan Roland Kobia during the 19th International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference in Baku. “With a strong pipeline …
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June 6, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Four judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), who are in charge of the trial of Radovan Karadzic, started on Tuesday tour of the Srebrenica sites which will last for 5 days. The judges, who are from Trinidad, South Korea, Italy and Great Britain, are accompanied …
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June 6, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegrin President, Filip Vujanovic, announced that his country will sign agreements on border and dual citizenship with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The President of Montenegro met his Bosnian counterpart on Sunday at UNESCO’s Summit of Heads of State in South East Europe, held in Mostar (the southwest of Bosnia). After this …
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June 4, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
Georgia and the EU started communication on a visa-free regime on June 4. 8 EU countries voiced on November 2011 the intention to start the negotiations on visa-free regime and free trade with Georgia. The agreement on “Simplification of visa issuance procedures” in a single package with the agreement on …
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June 4, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Cyprus’ central bank chief, Panicos Demetriades, announced that it’s very possible to be in situation to ask for an EU bailout agreement to help rescue its banking sector, adding that “it is hard to see where (the money) is coming from, if not Europe.”
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June 4, 2012 Albania, Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
The European Commission adopted on 27 May proposals to allow Albanian and Bosnian citizens to travel to Schengen area without visas, if the two countries satisfy a number of requirements. “I know how much visa-free travel means to the people
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June 4, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
EULEX will start to exhume a possible mass grave in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, after two bodies were found by local residents during construction works. A team of EULEX experts and war
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June 4, 2012 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Albanian PM Sali Berisha discussed on Sunday with opposition leader Edi Rama about agreeing on a candidate for president, but failed to reach any positive results. The opposition rejected Zaganjori’s candidature and asked for talks between
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June 4, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President together with several ministers held a meeting to discuss the latest events between from northern Kosovo between Serbs and NATO peacekeepers. The meeting was held on Friday, right after KFOR started to dismantle the Serb barricades near Zvecan, a Serb-run area in northern Kosovo. Serbia’s Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac, …
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